Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode

2090. I want you to imagine yourself spending years climbing a mountain, pushing through adversity,

pushing through the bad weather, only to reach the top and realize that it wasn't the mountain

you were meant to climb. You were climbing someone else's mountain.

And this, I was thinking about this and how this is like chasing something, allowing someone

else to define what success is to you. And that's the risk that every leader, every coach faces when they don't take the time to pause, every player, when you don't take the time to pause and discuss and define what success is for you.

Because success, it's one of the most dangerous words in leadership and in performance because if you don't define it for define it for

yourself if you don't crystallize and aren't specific on what it looks like for you then the world

is going to define success for you the industry is going to define success for you and that's

dangerous and the world's definition

is often shallow it's about wins it's about titles its status its recognition it's purely

results based and if you know me like results do matter however you don't want it to completely

consume you because real success

the kind that lasts isn't found on the scoreboard or in someone else's opinion it's in the quiet

clarity of knowing who you are what you stand for what is your identity that. That is what truly matters. And as a coach, as a leader,

your success needs to be anchored in something deeper than wins and losses, things that you

don't have 100% control over. Is it developing people? Is it building a culture that outlives you? Is it teaching lessons that extend

beyond the game? The reality is only you could define what success truly is. And the truth is,

until you define success for yourself, you're always going to feel like you're chasing something

that's just outside of your reach.

And so the greatest leaders don't measure success in trophies alone. Again, I want to reiterate that, especially in my role of pro sports, results do matter.

But it's not the only thing that matter.

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